President Donald Trump should treat the violent left-wing networks carrying out attacks as foreign terrorists, Federalist CEO Sean Davis declared on Steve Bannon’s War Room on Thursday.
Trump signed an executive order earlier this week designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and terrorist threat. After at least three more left-wing attacks against Americans in the two weeks since Kirk’s murder, however, Davis said executive orders are “not enough.”
“We actually need to have people going after them, hauling them in, taking them off the streets. And most importantly, they need to have their financing networks absolutely destroyed,” Davis concluded.
Instead, groups with ties to Antifa, such as the John Brown Club, reportedly continue to not only celebrate Charlie Kirk’s assassination but hint at future violence with claims such as “we’re … done with ceremonial resistance and strongly worded letters.”
“[M]ake no mistake, John Brown was a terrorist. He went and butchered innocent people in the cause of abolition, you know, which is a good cause,” Davis explained.
“But the definition of terrorism is using violence against non-combatants in order to bring about political change. It’s not guerrilla warfare. It’s not conventional warfare. It’s killing innocent people to terrify a populace into doing what you want them to do. That’s what John Brown did, and now John Brown has become something of an icon for these, these ugly, gay Communists who style themselves as ‘anti-fascist,’” Davis warned, noting that they believe “they can perpetrate any violence they want to whatever ends they want.”
Trump, Davis said, is correct to call terrorists “what they are” and the violence they perpetrate “what it is,” but says the administration must take swift action too.
“I kind of think the time for talk is over,” Davis continued. “It’s been two weeks, two weeks and a day, since Charlie was killed. The time for talk is over. The time to roll up these terrorist Antifa networks that are out there openly calling for and executing violence on us, the time for that nonsense is over. So like they need to get cracking and quit talking, because lives are at stake. Our lives are at stake, and we can’t stand for this nonsense anymore.”
To take things a “step further,” Davis encouraged the Trump administration to “treat [Antifa] as the, not just domestic, but foreign-funded and organized terrorist organizations that they are.”
“I actually think there’s more than enough evidence and information to actually designate them as foreign terrorist organizations, because that opens up an even bigger and more powerful toolbox,” Davis added. “We’re looking at an ISIS equivalent. We’re looking at people who are highly organized. They operate in cells. They all have the same goals. They’re trained, whether it’s by former U.S. military or foreign military, to go out and perpetrate violence.”
Davis said “crushing” the violent networks starts with “raids on these people who are trying to seize and run sieges against federal courthouses, against federal buildings.”
“These are terrorist organizations. We need to treat them like we treated al Qaeda and ISIS and every other group out there,” Davis said.
The left-wingers carrying out violence aren’t the only “extremely well-coordinated and financed operation coming after” conservatives, Davis warned. Much of the censorship against The Federalist in particular, he continued, came from Facebook, Google, and YouTube, which have not “apologized” or “offered restitution.”
“The entire left-wing movement, the entire Democrat power apparatus, has been focused on crushing us,” Davis said. “We’re not going anywhere, but my goodness is it a fight trying to just stay alive when you have all of the forces of evil in this world trying to crush you.”
